Trump Fires Karen Rochlin, US Prosecutor Who Begged Judge to Send Jenna Ryan to Prison for Peacefully Protesting on Jan 6th
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Karen Rochlin was the US Prosecutor who was switched to my case at the last minute, after I signed the plea deal, and before I was sentenced to 60 days in prison in Washington DC on Constitution Avenue. Last night, on President Trump’s 12 day in office, it was announced that the interim leaders in the DOJ have purged the agency of prosecutors involved in the January 6th Capitol fiasco. Rochlin was among dozens of prosecutors fired, and she prosecuted many of the Jan. 6th politically persecuted victims.
I must say, this is an emotional time for me, in that this woman was so heinous towards me, treated me so inhumanely and with such disdain, Her lack of a soul, of integrity or ethics in her handling of my case was striking and abusive. It is a time of reflection, and a feeling of relief that someone who was so callous, cruel and dishonest will no longer be working in our government and attacking hardworking citizens.
I could write 10,000 pages about the details of the harm this woman bestowed upon my life, but I will spare you all the details and just share with you in bulleted form the highlights of what I consider to be a ghoulish replica of human flesh; and the direct harm she inflicted upon me.
I was so excited that my attorney finally found out, after months of me wondering night and day, day and night whether or not I would be able to stay in home confinement for 3 months, or be on probation for three years or get sentenced to prison. My attorney finally let me know I would not be going to prison.
I was attacked relentlessly online by trolls, bots and God knows who else, and was searching with everything I could muster to find some humanity in the madness. I responded to one of the hurtful trolls telling me that I would be going to prison. I said, “No, I’m not going to prison…” That tweet became world news the next day, much to my mortification.
The next day I receive a call from my attorney. It seems the Judge saw my tweet and he was pissed because I said I was not going to prison and only the Judge could decide that. Also, my attorney found out that I would be getting a new prosecutor. I was shocked that the Judge was watching my tweets, and was even more beside myself than I had been all year, if that is even possible.
A week or so later, my attorney had the opportunity to speak to Karen Rochlin to find out what her recommendations would be; after their conversation my attorney called me and said, “She doesn’t like you. She thinks you’re a liar.” I was baffled. The woman never met me, never spoke to me, and I’d been nothing but honest with the DOJ, giving vast amounts of documentation and information to the government about every aspect imaginable about my personal life. I was desparately trying to avoid prison.
Karen Rochlin told my attorney that she would be recommending prison, despite the PSI officer who did the report recommending probation, and the previous prosecutor recommending probation, I would be recommended prison. My heart hit the pavement. After all they’d done to me all year, after everything—the millions of emails, death threats, attempts to take my business, making me change my name and hide, they were going to finish me off with a prison sentence. In my mind, they wanted me dead.
It then became a matter of how long I would go to prison. One day, the number came. Rochlin would be recommending 60 days in prison. She hated me. She joined the chorus of millions of people in the media, online and off of canceling me and throwing me in prison.
Right before the sentencing date, I received it. A 21 page sentencing memorandum that is so acerbic the thought of it crushes my soul. I pled guilty to parading, picketing and protesting in a restricted area, and she piled on 21 page of reasons why I deserved 60 days of prison. The sentencing memorandum was filled with conjecture, falsehoods and salacious headlines written about me in mainstream media. I asked my attorney if this was normal, and he said. No.
The sentencing memorandum was abhorrent. She used texts between me and my mother--when my mother was on her deathbed--in the sentencing memorandum to prove I have no remorse and deserve prison. That was a low-blow, and a total violation of my privacy to publish my words to my dying mother. My mother passed away only 3 months before I was sentenced to prison.
We were in such a show trial-style situation, that there was no use fighting it. The best strategy was just to get out of their clenches. My attorney responded to her 21 page sentencing memorandum with a one page—my client was not violent, and everything she said that day was protected speech.
I wrote a letter to the court begging for mercy. I wrote the letter and rewrote the letter about 25 times (my apologies to my attorney). I just couldn’t nail down what it was I felt remorse for doing. I finally resolved to beg for mercy based on my remorse for going into the Capitol for 2 minutes and 8 seconds. That’s the only thing I could figure to state that wouldn’t totally disinigrate my humanity. Even that was off. I walked in and walked out standing next to a smiling police officer. I guess I have remorse, okay.
At sentencing, I was beyond defeated. I was a worm in no man’s land. I was in America, but it felt to me like Washington DC was commuist territory. I walked into the courtroom to face this woman who hated me so vehemently, whom I’d never met or spoken with in my life.
Rochlin drolled on for 43 minutes about my free speech and lack of remorse. Rochlin spent 43 minutes bringing up everything I said on January 6th, regarless of what time of day I said it, and regardless of what my knowledge or lack of knowledge of other violent areas of the day was, and regardless of whether my words she accused me of saying were “protected speech.”
She and the Judge went back and forth, as if on cue, as if rehearsed (likely in the many J6 cases they had in the courtroom) as to my level of remorse. Rochlin argued that I did not show any remorse and that I was a cheerleader on J6 and that I deserved prison.
Rochlin went on and on about things I said that were my right to say, and used my words as proof of my lack of remorse. This was a way for her to censor my speech under the guise of “remorse,” rather than by formally charging me for what I said.
The only humane thing that Rochlin did was to spare the courtroom my videos and images from being displayed. The Judge asked her if she wanted to play it, but she declined. I’ll give her a little credit for that. I was already shamed beyond recognition. She had gotten all the joy she could squeeze from her position of utter power over me.
I still have the sentencing memorandum. It’s too difficult to read. I still have the transcript of the sentencing hearing, and there was so much gaslighting, that reading it makes me feel like someone set my soul on fire.
Ultimately, the Judge sentenced to 60 days in prison for not having remorse while peacefully protesting. He said I was a peaceful protester and that I was not being sentenced for anything I said, or did, but due to the media interest—people would look at what punishment I got and that I needed to take some responsibility for the tragedy of that terrible day.
Today I can firmly say that Karen Rochlin needs to be investigated. I was not the only J6 protester she harmed. She was a hero whomever she was serving. She violated my civil rights. She persecuted me for peacefully protesting. She destroyed my reputation and led to my unlawful incarceration and inhumane treatment in prison.
Karen Rochlin needs to be disbarred; she has not upheld her oath to the US Constitution. She belongs in a Banana Republic somewhere, persecuting innocent citizens of some other communist regime far away.
The best is yet to come.
